Dessert Recipes

Third batch of black cat cookie cake batter in two days, and I finally figured out why the whiskers kept melting into the frosting. It … Read more

The smoke detector went off at 9 PM on a Tuesday, and I was elbow-deep in black buttercream, trying to salvage a batch of cookies … Read more

Late October. The kitchen light is the only one on in the house, and the air smells like cinnamon and something faintly nutty. I’m standing … Read more

My neighbor, a woman named Carol who grows the most incredible Honeycrisp apples in her backyard, handed me a bag of them one October afternoon. … Read more

The whole sheet pan was gone before I could even snap a decent photo. My neighbor had texted me the night before asking if I … Read more

The crackle on top of these cookies. That fine, almost delicate web of icing settling into the tiny fissures of a soft, pillowy pumpkin cookie. … Read more

Dropping the last of the chopped apples into the bowl when I realized I didn’t have a loaf pan clean. No, seriously—there I stood, hands … Read more

I burnt the caramel the first three times I tried to make this Creamy Caramel Apple Cheesecake Dip. Not a little scorched either—I mean, blackened, … Read more

For a while, I just accepted that pumpkin cheesecake bars weren’t going to have that perfect, clean slice. The kind where the creamy filling stays … Read more

My niece’s seventh birthday party was forty-eight hours away, and I had a half-used stick of butter, a carton of buttermilk that was technically questionable, … Read more